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Modulating plant oil levels

a technology of plant oil and level, applied in the field of moduleating plant oil levels, can solve the problems of inability to detect the introduction of nucleic acid in daughter cells, and consuming too much saturated fa

Active Publication Date: 2009-12-31
CERES INC
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This patent describes methods for increasing or decreasing the levels of oil in plants. By introducing specific genes into plant cells, researchers have been able to create plants with higher or lower oil content. This can be useful for increasing the nutritional value of seeds and the yield of oil from seeds. The patent also provides a list of genes that can be used to create oil-modulated plants. Overall, this patent provides a way to control the oil content in plants for improved nutritional value and increased oil production.

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Eating too much saturated fat is one of the major risk factors for heart disease.
Transiently transformed cells typically lose all or some portion of the introduced nucleic acid construct with each cell division such that the introduced nucleic acid cannot be detected in daughter cells after a sufficient number of cell divisions.

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Transgenic Plants

[0312]The following symbols are used in the Examples: T1: first generation transformant; T2: second generation, progeny of self-pollinated T1 plants; T3: third generation, progeny of self-pollinated T2 plants; T4: fourth generation, progeny of self-pollinated T3 plants. Independent transformations are referred to as events.

[0313]The following is a list of nucleic acids that were isolated from Arabidopsis thaliana plants. Ceres Clone 25429 (At3g44590; SEQ ID NO:93) is a cDNA clone that is predicted to encode a 113 amino acid (SEQ ID NO:94) ribosomal polypeptide. Ceres Clone 41573 (At5g15140; SEQ ID NO:80) is a cDNA clone that is predicted to encode a 298 amino acid (SEQ ID NO:81) aldose 1-epimerase polypeptide. Ceres Clone 5750 (At2g27960; SEQ ID NO:110) is a cDNA clone that is predicted to encode an 87 amino acid (SEQ ID NO:111) cyclin-dependent kinase regulatory subunit polypeptide. Ceres Clone 121021 (SEQ ID NO:151) is a DNA clone that is predicted to encode a 199...

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Analysis of Oil Content in Transgenic Arabidopsis Seeds

[0318]An analytical method based on Fourier transform near-infrared (FT-NIR) spectroscopy was developed, validated, and used to perform a high-throughput screen of transgenic seed lines for alterations in seed oil content. To calibrate the FT-NIR spectroscopy method, a sub-population of transgenic seed lines was randomly selected and analyzed for oil content using a direct primary method. Fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) analysis by gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy (GC-MS) was used as the direct primary method to determine the total fatty acid content for each seed line and produce the FT-NIR spectroscopy calibration curves for oil.

[0319]To analyze seed oil content using GC-MS, seed tissue was homogenized in liquid nitrogen using a mortar and pestle to create a powder. The tissue was weighed, and 5.0±0.25 mg were transferred into a 2 mL Eppendorf tube. The exact weight of each sample was recorded. One mL of 2.5% H2SO4 (v / v in ...

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Analysis of Protein Content in Transgenic Arabidopsis Seeds

[0326]An analytical method based on Fourier transform near-infrared (FT-NIR) spectroscopy was developed, validated, and used to perform a high-throughput screen of transgenic seed lines for alterations in seed protein content. To calibrate the FT-NIR spectroscopy method, total nitrogen elemental analysis was used as a primary method to analyze a sub-population of randomly selected transgenic seed lines. The overall percentage of nitrogen in each sample was determined. Percent nitrogen values were multiplied by a conversion factor to obtain percent total protein values. A conversion factor of 5.30 was selected based on data for cotton, sunflower, safflower, and sesame seed (Rhee, K. C., Determination of Total Nitrogen In Handbook of Food Analytical Chemistry—Water, Proteins, Enzymes, Lipids, and Carbohydrates (R. Wrolstad et al., ed.), John Wiley and Sons, Inc., p. 105, (2005)). The same seed lines were then analyzed by FT-NI...

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Abstract

Methods and materials for modulating (e.g., increasing or decreasing) oil levels in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding oil-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased oil levels and plant products produced from plants having increased oil levels.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This Application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) to U.S. Provisional Application No. 60 / 762,422, filed Jan. 26, 2006, and U.S. Provisional Application No. 60 / 797,077, filed May 1, 2006, incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.BACKGROUND[0002]1. Technical Field[0003]This document relates to methods and materials involved in modulating (e.g., increasing or decreasing) oil levels in plants. For example, this document provides plants having increased oil levels as well as materials and methods for making plants and plant products having increased oil levels.[0004]2. Incorporation-By-Reference & Texts[0005]The material on the accompanying diskette is hereby incorporated by reference into this application. The accompanying compact discs contain one identical file, 11696-204WO1-Sequence.txt, which was created on Jan. 26, 2007. The file named 11696-204WO1-Sequence.txt is 1128 KB. The file can be accessed using Microsoft Word on ...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): A23L1/212A23L1/36A23K1/00C12N5/10C07H21/04C11B1/00C12N15/82A01H5/00A23L7/10A23L19/00A23L25/00
CPCC12N15/8247C07K14/415
Inventor BOBZIN, STEVEN CRAIGMUMENTHALER, DANIELJANKOWSKI, BORISRARANG, JOEL CRUZ
Owner CERES INC
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